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Search engine that rapidly became a famous meme to describe failure and lack of results in a web search. It is only used as a noun currently but the word may assume a verb form, like googling, if the team keeps up the search fail.
Breaking News: Experts concluded that the huge saucer-like object that hovers in the earth's atmosphere is nothing to be worried about after they have used a Cuil search for extra terresterial life form and came up with nothing.
cuil by Rhuarc August 27, 2008
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Cuil (pronounced "cool") is a search engine created by ex-Google employees. It is renowned for failing to produce helpful results, and it has already reached meme status as a fail inside a fail wrapped in a fail.
Cuil by clpo13 August 26, 2008
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To look for something but never find it.

More information see: cuil.com
I cuiled it and got a lot of gay porn pictures.
cuil by Hypocrites September 28, 2008
Cuil is a new search engine that has appeared a few days ago. It is pronounced "cool". This is also brought up to be the "google-killer", but we are just waiting for it to fail.
1: Hey are you searching through cuil?

2: No, I use Google.
cuil by xPsycho August 27, 2008
To search for something easy to find but be unable to find it. (From cuil.com, a surprisingly ineffective search engine.)
I cuiled this "Barack Obama" guy but couldn't find anything.
Cuil by riznit2 August 27, 2008
A search engine which give you a random list of pages and unrelated images for each search term.
Person 1: I need to find information about the evolutionary history of humans.
Person 2: Search Cuil for "toaster"
Cuil by Frederick William II August 26, 2008
rogue Google competitor. can be used interchangeably with "google".
Ex. "Is that fact right?" "For sure. I totally cuil-ed it earlier."

Ex. "If you cuil my name, an embarrassing photo from that frat party comes up!"
cuil by gridapptim August 26, 2008